Conduct research in the genetics, nutrition, reproduction, growth, and development of domestic farm animals.

Other names for Animal Scientists: Animal Anatomist, Animal Behaviorist, Animal Biologist, Animal Breeder, Animal Breeding and Genetics Professor, Animal Husbandman, Animal Management Systems Specialist, Animal Nutrition Consultant, Animal Nutritionist, Animal Science Professor, Animal Science Section Leader, Animal Scientist, Beef Cattle Nutritionist, Beef Cattle Specialist, Beef Technical Services Manager, Dairy Bacteriologist, Dairy Consultant, Dairy Husbandman, Dairy Management Professor, Dairy Nutritionist, Dairy Scientist, Extension Animal Scientist, Genetic Scientist, Horticulturist, Poultry Husbandman, Poultry Science Professor, Poultry Scientist, Professor, Research and Development Director, Research Center Partner, Research Geneticist, Research Scientist, Sericulturist, Swine Genetics Researcher, Swine Nutritionist, Veterinary Science Professor,

• Conduct research concerning animal nutrition, breeding, or management to improve products or processes.
• Advise producers about improved products and techniques that could enhance their animal production efforts.
• Study nutritional requirements of animals and nutritive values of animal feed materials.
• Study effects of management practices, processing methods, feed, or environmental conditions on quality and quantity of animal products, such as eggs and milk.
• Develop improved practices in feeding, housing, sanitation, or parasite and disease control of animals.
• Research and control animal selection and breeding practices to increase production efficiency and improve animal quality.
• Determine genetic composition of animal populations and heritability of traits, utilizing principles of genetics.
• Crossbreed animals with existing strains or cross strains to obtain new combinations of desirable characteristics.

• Analytical balances
• Hematology analyzers
• Animal husbandry equipment
• Feed mixers
• Animal husbandry equipment
• Animal husbandry equipment
• Animal husbandry equipment
• Atomic absorption AA spectrometers
• Dry wall single chamber carbon dioxide incubators
• Veterinary injection or suction units or accessories
• Benchtop centrifuges
• Blood collection syringes
• Calorimeters
• Incubators or brooders for poultry
• Gas burners
• Animal husbandry equipment
• Restraints
• Calorimeters
• Stunner
• Animal weighing scales
• Animal husbandry equipment
• Circulating baths
• Animal husbandry equipment
• Conductivity meters
• Animal husbandry equipment
• Deoxyribonucleic sequence analyzers
• Desktop computers
• Histology sampling and dissecting stations
• Animal husbandry equipment
• Stunner
• Laboratory balances
• Laboratory flasks
• Vacuum blood collection tubes or containers
• Reactors or fermenters or digesters
• Spectrophotometers
• Electrophoresis system accessories
• Freeze dryers or lyopholizers
• Gas chromatographs
• Gel documentation systems
• Dropping pipettes
• Laboratory beakers
• Laboratory graduated cylinders
• Handheld thermometer
• High pressure liquid chromatograph chromatography
• Homogenizers
• Stirring hotplates
• Hybridization ovens or incubators
• Hydrometers
• Photo attachments for microscopes
• Infrared spectrometers
• Drying cabinets or ovens
• Fume hoods or cupboards
• Vacuum ovens
• Laboratory vacuum pumps
• Water baths
• Laminar flow cabinets or stations
• Notebook computers
• Densitometers
• Liquid scintillation counters
• Animal weighing scales
• Chopping machinery
• Commercial use food grinders
• Microcentrifuges
• Microscope slides
• Microcentrifuges
• Binocular light compound microscopes
• Orbital shaking water baths
• Oxygen sensors
• Personal computers
• Petri plates or dishes
• Temperature cycling chambers or thermal cyclers
• Incubators or brooders for poultry
• Refrigerated benchtop centrifuges
• Densitometers
• Calculators or accessories
• Gel dryers
• Specimen collectors
• Steam autoclaves or sterilizers
• Tissue culture incubators
• Triple beam balances
• Ultracentrifuges
• Immersion circulators
• Medical ultrasound or doppler or echo probes
• Spectrophotometers
• Veterinary castration instruments
• Laboratory flasks

Office suite software

Word processing software

Spreadsheet software

Data base user interface and query software

Computer aided design CAD software

Analytical or scientific software

Internet browser software

Electronic mail software

Map creation software